Hi,
I recently downloaded fpc including the manuals and Lazarus. (I'm a Pascal programmer going back to turbo-pascal on the Amstrad!). Lazarus is working as expected. However, when I want to start the IDE (and run some very old programs under Linux) fp is not found. I cannot find any program called fp on my disk. Also the example file hello isn't found although there is a file helloworld.pas in a directory helloworld My question: Is the IDE included in fpc (I obtained fpc-2.0.2-050923i386.rpm and fpcsrc-2.0.2-050923i386.rpm and installed both) and is there maybe another command to start the IDE? I have an AMD64 running the 64-bit version of Fedora4 and I haven't found a specific 64-bit version of fpc.
I hope somebody can give me some clues.
Joep

You can download x86_64 fpc 2.0.0 rpm's from:
http://www.freepascal.org/down-x86_64-linux-ftp.freepascal.org.html

I am interested in knowing whether you get Lazarus working in 64 bit mode. I have compiled it with fpc 2.0.0, but get runtime errors. I could not get Lazarus to compile with 64 bit fpc 2.0.1 or 2.1.1 yet.

Regards,
Christo Crause
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Please, write error messages with svn versions of both fpc and lazarus to the lazarus mailing list or submit a bug report on
http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mantis/main_page.php

But make sure you are the latest svn version of both fpc and lazarus. A number of fixes have been made since the latest releases.

As far as I know, lazarus can be compiled and started on linux-amd64

Vincent.

As far as I know, lazarus can be compiled and started on linux-amd64

I think he is mainly complaining about the lack of the textmode IDE.

Doesn't the fpc packages that are together with lazarus include them???

I also can't find the text mode ide (fp) on my system, so I guess it is not included with those packages.

FP is surely included on the subversion version of fpc (just tested). Maybe it is also included on the packages on the FPC website?

I think you should have 2 FPCs. One to work with lazarus and another one (from subversion perhaps, since you can't have to rpm packages for the samething) to work with only with fpc and the text mode ide. The subversion version remains separated from the rest of the sistem on a single directory, and this avoids conflics.

The only problem is the config file, and if the two FPCs have different versions, even that is no problem, see buildfaq.

Thanks all,
I have downloaded fpc-2.0.1-050923.i386.rpm and
fpcsrc-2.0.1-050923.i386.rpm, both work apparently with Lazarus and Christo, on your suggestion I tried one of the examples to run and it failed with the following error:

/usr/bin/ld: skipping
incompatible /usr/lib/fpc/2.0.1/units/i386-linux/rtl/cprt21.o when searching for /usr/lib/fpc/2.0.1/units/i386-linux/rtl/cprt21.o but I haven't installed the 64-bit version, so I will remove the current version and install the 64-bit version and see if Lazarus will work.

Vincent, of course I always try to go to the appropriate list. My question with respect to fp was for this list. My answer to Christo is only an add-on to his mail.
By the way, where do I find the subversion version of fpc? Joep

I will try and have a look

Correct, but probably your "ld" is 64-bit. You must point fpc to the 32-bit linker (and libraries) if you want to generate 32-bits bins.

Hello,

J.L. Blom wrote

By the way, where do I find the subversion version of fpc? Joep

On the Free pascal website you click on "Development", and then on "Connect to Source Repository with SVN", and you will arrive at this URL:

http://www.freepascal.org/develop.html#svn

There you can find instructions on how to use subversion to download fpc.

Sorry to bother again, and thanks, Christo, it is a version that contains fp. However, no program will compile as the error is: Fatal: Can't find unit System
But when I look in fpc.cfg the path for units is correct: # searchpath for units and other system dependent things -Fu/usr/lib64/fpc/2.0.0/units/$fpctarget
-Fu/usr/lib64/fpc/2.0.0/units/$fpctarget/*
-Fu/usr/lib64/fpc/2.0.0/units/$fpctarget/rtl
#-Fu~/fpc/packages/base/*/units/;~/fpc/fcll/units/;~/fpc/rtl/units/ Well, my unit directory is /usr/lib64/fpc/2.0.0/units/x86_64-linux/.... but I don't know where the variable fpctarget is initialised, I assume in fp but cant find it. I have tried to set the path directly (in options) however with no effect.

Another problem is that Lazarus complains:
fpc = 2.0.1-050923 is needed by lazarus-0.9.10-0.i386 fpcsrc = 2.0.1-050923 is needed by lazarus-0.9.10-0.i386 and of course it's correct (fpc version is 2.0.0. and I haven't found fpcsrc-2.0.0 ).
So my questions are:
1. Where is fpctarget initialised ? (or how can nudge fpc to run at least "helloworld")
2. Which lazarus version is available for version 2.0.0-x86_64 (or is there 2.0.1-050923-x86_64 version).
3. Why do I need fpcsrc (I assume it's the source of fpc) to use lazarus? (I didn't find it in wiki but maybe I didn't know where to look)
Thanks,
Joep